"He totally dismissed the power of strong presidential messaging to the world, backed up by executive action, that U.S. federal immigration law would be enforced. As events clearly demonstrated, when Trump returned to the White House, Bier's yearning, huddled masses quickly figured out that the United States would no longer tolerate waves of economic migrants storming across Mexico to enter our country illegally."
"It was not long ago that Washington's establishment experts announced that the crisis on the U.S. southern border was unfixable. They claimed illegal mass immigration was a historic phenomenon, an unstoppable force that no president could halt. Typical was the Cato Institute's David Bier, who wrote two years ago inthe New York Times: " Biden Can't Stop Immigration. Time to Embrace It.""
Washington establishment experts claimed the U.S. southern border crisis was unfixable and that mass illegal immigration was an unstoppable historical phenomenon. David Bier argued that presidential changes could not halt immigration and suggested embracing continued inflows. That view dismissed the effect of strong presidential messaging and executive enforcement of federal immigration law. A contrasting report from journalist Todd Bensman emphasized that presidential words and actions drive millions of clandestine migrants' go-or-no-go decisions. The return of a different administration demonstrated that changes in presidential posture and enforcement produced rapid reductions in migrant attempts to cross into the United States.
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